anonymous communique (click here to view photos from the action):

“Animal Liberation Front Investigations Unit Expose Rabbit Meat Farm
05 . 11 . 2008

On the eve of Barry Horne’s death, a group of volunteers accessed a rabbit ‘meat’ farm in Berkshire, U.K. This farm used to harbour hundreds of rabbits in the back of converted box lorries, but have recently upgraded their bunny butchering enterprise to four permanent and highly intensive units. Semi-built and set to be filled with hundreds of rabbits, we entered the site and bypassed top security measures.. the key was left in the door!

One unit was so full of rubble and electricity cables we almost didn’t expect to find any animals in such conditions. Further inspection found rows of cages, many with rabbits inside. All living on wire, many rabbits were blind, had ears missing and were rotting alive inside this windowless hell.

Even within a legal system that legitimises animal abuse, this sicko has still managed to torture animals beyond any legal requirements. The unit was in total disrepair, flooded with a mix of water and excrement, with open elecrticity wires and strewn with litter. None of the units had ventilation or air conditioning systems, despite being newly built. This farm was an excellent example of what ‘animal welfare’ means for animals: fuck all.

Needless to say we decided to make some legal corrections. After taking several rabbits to safety, who are now recovering in loving homes, we turned our attention to stopping this ‘man’ filling any more cages with defenceless animals. We cut every empty cage into pieces. Fuse boxes and machinery were glued and filled with expanding foam. Messages were left on the outer walls and doors before we vanished back into the darkness with our newly acquired friends.

This action was carried out in the memory of Barry, who continues to be an inspiration to us all despite his death at the hands of the british government.

- ALF Investigations Unit”

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November 8^th: AR Movie Night!  Come join us at the PSU movie theatre. Bring $5 suggested donation for Portland Animal Defense League.  Doors open at 7:00pm with movie starting at 7:30.  FREE VEGAN POPCORN but feel free to bring your own snacks!

What: Special Screening of A Sealed Fate

Where: PSU’s 5^th Avenue Cinema (www.fifthavenuecinema.groups.pdx.edu/ourlocation.html)

When: Doors Open 7pm / Movie Starts 7:30pm

About A Sealed Fate: A film by Nigel Barker—professional photographer and a judge on “America’s Next Top Model” and one of The HSUS’s top spokespersons—that chronicles Nigel’s two trips to Atlantic Canada this year with his team and with HSUS staff—the first before the hunt started where he showed the world through his pictures this open-air nursery and the majesty of the seals and the seascape, and the second to broadcast images of the hunt itself. The biopic subtly conveys how this slaughter of a quarter of a million or more seals really exists because of stubbornness and inertia, not because of its contribution to the economy and certainly not its role in managing marine mammal or fish populations. It’s just animal abuse, bound up with tradition, and it will only end when Canada, Americans, and Europeans make enough of a clamor and exert enough influence to shut it down.

About Portland Animal Defense League: The Portland Animal Defense League is an animal rights group based in Portland, Oregon. We are a grassroots organization that conducts hard-hitting campaigns designed to eliminate all forms of animal exploitation. We advocate veganism: an end to animals as food, entertainment and clothing, and ending animal testing in favor of modernized, ethical methods of research. 

Facts:

• More than one million baby seals have been killed in the past four years for their fur.
• Baby seals can be hunted once their white coat is shed, which can be as early as 12 days.

Resources:

Campus Map: www.pdx.edu/map.html

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Parking: Free after 7pm on the street.  Weekends you can park in the PSU parking structures and pay for a daylong fee. 

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According to media reports, early on October 16 approximately 3000 mink were released from La Visonnière Labonté de Thetford Mines, the largest fur farm in Quebec.

Farm director Pierre Labonté told a local newspaper, “Not only did they open the cages and release mink, but they also destroyed their pedigree cards, which is the trademark of anti-fur militants.” (The cards contain irreplacable information about an individual animal’s life history.) With the loss of genetic information, Mr. Labonté said the escaped mink are no longer useful for breeding. “We have insurance that protects us against theft, but not against this type of crime,” he addded and estimated losses at $200,000.

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